The dogs are on the loose
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Inu-chan Sessh's little bro: I don't like to make Inuyasha (the story itself) too morbid sometime a touch of it is enough, and you don't need to kill someone for it, however... BEEP I should think about putting the review answers on the back. It'd spoil much stuff if I continue.
Aznmiko16: I don't know buthe'll kinda deserve it after all the bad stuff he'll get throughout inthe story.
Dragon Man 180: It was not just a plan in medieval Japan sometimes the groom kidnapped his wife from her home if her parents didn't agree to the wedding, of course this could only happen if the bride agreed to marry him, but for that she couldn't go back to her parents for some time Idon't know correctly how long that was, maybe a year or two.
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Chapter: 16 Ranma's friend
Over the mountains of Aomori
"Let me go you sick bastard!" yelled Akane at one of the dragons that was taking her to his master.
"As you wish!" the creature said letting her go, but there was the problem that they were at least half a mile up in the air. The girl screamed in terror when she started to fall but only a few moments later another one grabbed her, by the shoulders.
"Too bad that master Tekichi wants you unhurt. You see were a bit hungry." Akane didn't dare to open her mouth to answer.
"Yeah or at least have some fun with her!" added another.
Akane couldn't keep from shivering. /Ranma where the heck are you when I need you/
At the same time somewhere else
The sun is slowly starting to rise over the edge of the horizon to find Inuyasha and Kagome snuggled up in the top of a tree. "It's so nice to be away from the kids for a few days I just wish that the cause wouldn't be so bad." mumbled Kagome resting on Inuyasha's stomach.
"Yeah I kinda feel sorry for that boy he just wants to do things right, but it never works right for him." remarked Inuyasha.
"He only needs to take things into his hands and everything will come out right for him."
"Well one is for sure this mess WILL teach him to!"
"Inuyasha I think this is a bit too hard way for him to learn such things!" answered Kagome in a disapproving tone. "What would you do in his situation? No don't answer about half of the city would be already dead!"
As the two continued to talk Karom entered the camp in his small cat form carrying a larger mouse in his mouth. "Morning cat!" greeted Sesshoumaru. The feline let out a cat like growl and lifted his tail in the air to respond.
Karom sat down a few feet from Ranma and started to devour his breakfast. At the same time the boy was starting to stir, he rolled over, throwing of his blanket witch landed right on top of the cat. Ranma jawed and looked around in the camp "Morning everyone lets gather our things and get going." he said while jawing another time.
"Err... Ranma first you should get off of Karom!" advised Kagome.
"Get off of who?" asked Ranma while leaning on a small "lump". Seconds later he realized that the "lump" was growling.
/What the/ asked Ranma from himself while lifting the cover to look what's under it to find a peeved cat with a flat, half devoured mouse in his face. He quickly placed the blanket back and gulped a few times.
Kagome leaned back against Inuyasha and savored the last seconds of piece and quiet. /3...2...1.../
"CAAAT!" roared Ranma, while Karom was growing into a MUCH bigger cat.
"Rrrrrroooowwwwrrrr!" (Translation: You'll be in the need of a healer human!)
"Do me a favor and don't kill my student!" interrupted Kagome.
Ranma decided to run for it before he's turned into butcher's meat, Karom stood there for a few seconds thinking about he should to the kid, in the end he scooped the rest of his breakfast up and ate it in one bite before following the panicking martial artist.
While Karom was "guiding" Ranma along the area the others decided to gather their things up and prepare to continue the trip.
/Ranma Saotome you're going to pay for ruining my life/ thought Ryoga while making his way across the forest. /I've gone through hell because of you... what the/ Ryoga saw Ranma running towards him, with a huge black/silver cat on his tail.
"Out of my way bacon breath!" he yelled, but the boy was too stunned to do anything. Ranma ran around him and continued his way, but Karom simply raced through sending the boy on a one-way trip into a treetop.
"Get back here Saotome and fight me like a man!" yelled Ryoga after Ranma but that had more problems than to answer to his demands, when the part time pig realized that his nemesis doesn't even try to listen to his demands he decided to follow them, thanks to some miracle he actually went in the right direction only to turn around after a few steps and head for Russia.
A mot much away from him three girls were arguing.
"Don't you even think about getting my darling Ranma!" warned Kodachi while eyeing her two opponents.
"Crazy girl shut up Ranma mine!" answered Shampoo.
"Look who's talking Ran-chan is mine." added the third lifting an ungodly sized spatula.
"What you talking about Ranma Shampoo's airen (husband)!"
"You're wrong there!" yelled Kodachi lifting her band. The other two girls also grabbed their weapons.
"DIE!" yelled all three at the same time charging forth, but they never reached the other because Ranma entered the clearing and raced by them with full speed.
"What he doing mow?" asked Shampoo seconds later she had her answer. Karom raced out of the bushes Kodachi, and the spatula girl made it to dodge but she didn't and was ran over by him.
The two females looked at the fallen Shampoo, when they saw that she isn't about to move both of them started to smile. "Well we can't leave her like that!" started Kodachi.
"You're right we might as well bury her." answered her college. The two proceeded to dig a hole for the amazon not caring because Ranma's screams of complete and utter terror. They threw her in, and threw the first couple shovel-fulls of dirt on her when she came back to consciousness.
"What you doing I not dead!" yelled the enraged amazon climbing out.
/Fiddlesticks she's still alive/ thought the other two.
Half an hour later things calmed down a bit, mainly thanks to the fact that Ranma fainted, since he was too busy running from Karom he never realized the three girls when he bypassed them, and so they were still following, the demons didn't care and Ranma didn't know that they were there.
/What do you think Inuyasha, how long will they keep up their engagement with him after they find out that Ranma has a number of deadly enemies/ asked Kagome from her mate.
/Don't know but I bet that the amazon is already thinking about resigning./ answered Inuyasha.
/No wonder after what you did to her in the last few weeks to get her singing./
/She could have just told me/
/But there are softer ways to do that./
/Like/
/Like threatening her to kill Ranma! That would make her talk./ answered Kagome.
"You call that softer?" yelled Inuyasha.
"It's better than to shake the life out of her."
"Fehhh!"
Back to Akane
"Finally were back home!" called out one of the dragons.
Akane looked around but she saw no sign of any castle or anything else that looked like a housing. /What the heck are they talking about. Suddenly Akane felt that the hands holding her by the shoulder let her go and she begun to fall Akane screamed again, but to her surprise after a few seconds she fell through something, and crash-landed roughly on a huge flying structure.
She tried to stand up and run but she could feel a sting in her ankle "Damn it this is just what you needed girl." she mumbled to herself.
"Move it woman there's someone who wants to meet you!" urged a dragon landing next to her.
Akane kicked the guard in the stomach, with her good foot, but at the same time she fell because of the pain that came form the other one.
"Aren't we feisty?" said another one grabbing her arm and forcing her to stand up. "Get moving you can rest after the master spoke to you! At least if you'll be alive after that!" The dragon dragged Akane into the interior of the structure, she knew that there's no use to fight and tried to keep up the pace.
Tekichi was in the training hall at the time Akane could see that the dragon was afraid because of something. When they reached a huge stone door it pushed her forward so she'll enter first. Akane barely had chance to doge the ice-lance heading for her head but one of the dragons behind her didn't have such luck. "What is it?" called Tekichi when seeing the girl.
"Sire we have returned from our mission, but there was some trouble." started the leader of the group.
"What kind of trouble?" asked the lord while creating another lance in his hand and throwing at the targets on the other side of the enormous room, while thinking about silencing his vassal forever.
"We couldn't capture the female dog demon, she was too strong for us."
"WHAT?" roared Tekichi.
"We tried to make her give up by capturing one of her pups but she fought back and freed it! After that she resorted to her true form. We didn't have a chance to stop her, it was the best to retreat and bring the human back." the dragon was shaking while saying this.
"I see! Did you find out anything my crystal?" the fact that two mere humans were able to block his true abilities sickened him.
"No well not completely no, before leaving I asked one of your vise-men to make some research, and maybe we could find a way to give you your real power back. It's possible that this female contains the answer or at least a part of it."
"Do as you wish but don't kill her." answered Tekichi.
Akane was shocked when she heard this. /No! Ranma please get me out of here! I don't care how just get me out of here/ she made it to hold back her tears, but the demons could smell it.
"Don't worry human we'll kill you first so you won't have to see your love's death." Akane couldn't hold it back anymore she started to shake uncontrollably.
"Get moving before I make up my mind and take her to that scholar! I want results!" ordered Tekichi.
"Yes sir!" answered the demon dragging Akane out of the room who now was fighting with all her power against him but had no chance.
Meanwhile with the kids
"Ok everyone we need a change in plans I think it's the best if we go under in Kiyoto." stated Shippo.
"But didn't your father say that we should go to Okinawa?" asked Kioku. Shippo unsheathed his weapon and lifted it into the air aiming at an old unused forester's hut that was standing a few feet away from the group.
"Kitsune-bi!" he yelled slashing across the air. There was and ice-dragon hiding in there that decided to run for it after realizing that he's busted, he broke through the hut's sealing avoiding the onslaught of flames, and started to run in hope to return vital information to his master.
"Oh no you don't growled Shippo. Eat this! Shardstorm!" the sword in Shippo's hand exploded into thousand pieces and the pieces raced towards the running dragon, who didn't even care to look back and didn't see the attack coming. The fox smiled when seeing that his opponent was being turned into Swiss cheese by the fragments of his weapon. At the same time the sword started to re-grow, first the blade looked like and uncut gem, but some parts of if peeled off and the sword looked like new.
"Now you know why I wanted to change the plan. Our opponent will look for five demons but we'll play the role of a one kid family with three pets!" Shippo received giggles for response.
"What a grand idea my dear husband!" started Kioku. Kirara let out a meow begging for food, and the giggling increased.
"You know what the idea is perfect... "Daddy"!" added Izayoi, a row of laughs followed.
"Kiyoto is only a few hours away we'll look for a house to rent and I'll look for a job to find money, we only have enough to buy ourselves a boat trip to Okinawa and some food so we'll need some income. Any questions?"
"NO BIG BRO/SHIPPO!" yelled everyone, and the group was on his way to put their new plan into action. All of them had a huge smile on their faces knowing that their enemies are going to scavenge, the entire sea for them before finding out that they are somewhere else.
"Very good Ranma!" praised Kagome as the group reached their camp for the night. "You got much better even I needed at least two moths to get to this level!"
"Yeah but you figured it out on your own!" interrupted Inuyasha.
"Not now Inuyasha we can fight later!" warned the female youkai, she took off her oversized backpack, and took out some of the food reserves.
"So what'll it be?" asked Sesshoumaru.
"Eggs for me!" interrupted Karom, he transformed into his small cat form and started to walk towards a tree not taking his eyes off the nest that he found in there.
"I want to give Inuyasha a treat so we'll be having ramen." she answered.
"Fine by me!" remarked Sesshoumaru.
"I only hope that you'll be able to make something that is fit to a lord like Sesshoumaru..." Jaken would have continued but was stopped by two blows on the head, one came from Inuyasha and a second from Sesshoumaru.
"Jaken you know well that its improper to criticize a married woman's cooking." warned Sesshoumaru in his usual cold tone.
"No problem, if Jaken thinks so I'll show him how bad I can cook!" answered Kagome while giving the toad a look that can kill." he knew that it's better for him not to eat, after all a good cook knows how to make poison out of the best food with one move.
Minutes later everyone was enjoying a nice meal, but Ranma suddenly stopped, he grasped his chest and leaned forward. Kagome immediately jumped up and raced next to him. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"My chest!" answered Ranma clenching his teeth.
"I told you that the food is bad!" hollered Jaken he's been silenced by Sesshoumaru mere seconds after he said that.
Myoga stopped sucking Inuyasha's blood and looked up, only to be flattened. "How many times do I have to tell you find someone else to suck on!" yelled Inuyasha.
"What's wrong Ranma?" Kagome asked again, while trying to find the source of the boy's pain.
"It's not me! It's Akane something terrible is happening to her. I can feel it!"
Kagome placed her arm on Ranma's shoulder to comfort him but the boy pushed it away. "You need to calm down it's no use of you make yourself feel miserable."
"But she's in pain and I can't help her!" sobbed Ranma fighting with his tears.
"I understand that you want to help her but we can't rush into things we don't know what our enemy is capable of, we need to be careful or we might never be able to rescue her!"
Tears started to leave Ranma's eyes, but he immediately whipped them away. Kagome could smell it he was trying to hold it back so hard that it hurt him. Ranma was surprised when he felt her arms around him. "Let it out it'll do good."
"No! A man never cries!" snapped the boy.
"Who told you that bullshit?" asked Kagome. "Let me guess it was your father right?" Ranma didn't bother to open his mouth but nodded. "Then he's no man!"
"What do you mean?" asked Ranma.
"Even Inuyasha can cry now and then! But does he look like a boy in your eyes?" asked the demoness.
"No." murmured Ranma, seconds later his dams broke and he started to cry into her chest.
"Its ok cry all you want it'll make you feel better." whispered Kagome into his ears. She turned her head back to Inuyasha, he knew what she wants to ask, the demon nodded to sign that he agrees. There were three girls hiding in the bushes they saw the entire scenario unfold and were all outraged except for one.
"He should be here cherishing my presence and instead he's crying, in the arms of that peasant!" yelled Kodachi.
"No he Shampoo's airen, she'll pay for touching him he should be happy kitchen wrecker no longer in way!" yelled the amazon charging forward not caring that her instincts were warning her to keep away from Inuyasha. Kodachi raced after her but the third girl stood there she didn't dare to move , Kodachi and Shampoo seemingly slowed down in front of her. She looked at Ranma who was still crying in the demon's hands.
/I never thought that he loves her so much/ she lowered her sight to look at her hands. /And I destroyed his happiness. If I only knew sooner./ the girl looked up and saw as the other two got closer to Kagome and Ranma, the others in the camp unsheathed their weapons and prepared to fend them, off. /The last ting I can do for Ran-chan is to help him to get back Akane./
The demons in the clearing were about to race forward to stop and seriously injure the attacking females, but before they could do that a third one entered the clearing and knocked out the two.
"Ukyo?" whispered Ranma.
"You know her?" asked Kagome.
"She's one of the fiancée's my dad got me." came the answer.
"I see." Kagome turned to the newcomer and carefully inspected her. She had long brown hair blue eyes, and wore boyish clothes if Kagome didn't have a good nose she would have said that Ukyo is a boy. /I sure hope she's not after Ranma he's in no condition for a fight/ "What do you want?" asked Kagome aloud.
"I want to help you save Akane!" answered the girl putting her spatula on her back.
"You a mere human without any spiritual powers? And a woman to top it! Are you crazy!" remarked Jaken.
"I want to repay you for the trouble I caused." she announced, she moved her vision moved to Ranma she fought with her tears but continued. "Now I know that you love Akane I won't stand in front of your happiness. Our engagement is off!"
Ranma looked at her he couldn't believe what the girl just said. "Thank you Ukyo." he blurted out.
"Can we still be friends?" asked the girl.
"Hey you're my best friend!" answered Ranma.
"No you're wrong Ran-chan Akane's your best friend. She's your future wife." she replied. With that said she walked to Ranma and sat down next to him "I promise from now on I'll love you as a brother!"